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Edina Reads
is a community-wide reading program
that encourages
active reading,
lifelong learning,
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Stanley Gordon
West
Stanley Gordon West
was born in 1932 and attended St. Paul Central High School
in Minnesota. He lived in Bozeman, Montana for several
years, and now resides in Shakopee, MN. All of his novels
are popular book club selections: Blind Your Ponies, two
other novels set in the same time and place as Until They
Bring the Streetcars Back - Finding Laura Buggs and Growing
an Inch - and his most recent, Sweet, Shattered Dreams. His
novel Amos was made into a CBS Movie of the Week starring
Kirk Douglas that stirred national controversy over abuse of
the aged in America. When Kirk Douglas testified before
Congress and wrote in the New York Times on the issue, he
pointed out that animals had been protected by law for one
hundred years before children or the aged. While Amos
focused on elder abuse, Until They Bring the Streetcars Back
explores the other vulnerable end of the age spectrum.
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